Ottomans

Umm al-Walad
An Islamic legal and sociohistorical term referring to a slave woman who bears a child for her owner.
Iqta
The Iqta system was a method of revenue collection and land assignment used during the Abbasid caliphate and subsequent Islamic states.

Dictionary of Islam

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